Literary Terms Competition Round 1

Literary Terms Competition – Round 1

You have one week to submit as a House Team from each year as many definitions and examples for each of the following terms. You get 1 point for each correct entry. You can choose any means of research. The final entry should be electronically sent to [email protected]

Terms Set 1 - Stories Definition Example Set 2 – Sounds and Definition Example Images 1. Tragedy 26. Anaphora 2. Comedy 27. Simile 3. Catharsis 28. Metaphor 4. Antagonist 29. Personification 5. Dramatic Irony 30. Symbol 6. Stanza 31. Iambic meter 7. Soliloquy 32. Assonance 8. Climax 33. Stichomythia 9. Rising Tension 34. Enjambment 10. Sonnet 35. Anapestic meter 11. Ballad 36. Dactylic meter 12. Exposition 37. Synaesthesia 13. Resolution 38. Caesura 14. Suspense 39. Juxtaposition 15. Apostrophe 40. Internal rhyme 16. Situational Irony 41. Pathetic fallacy 17. Tragic Irony 42. Trochaic meter 18. Anti-climax 43. Rhythm 19. Foreshadowing 44. Rhyming couplet 20. Protagonist 45. Alternate rhyme 21. Allegory 46. Alliteration 22. Dramatic 47. Onomatopoeia Monologue 23. Third Person 48. Sibilance narrative 24. First person 49. Plosives narrative 25. Free Indirect 50. Fricatives Discourse

Set 3 - Ideas and Concepts Definition Example Set 4 – Words and Sentences Definition Example

51. Connotation 76. Pronouns 52. Denotation 77. Synonym 53. Pun 78. Antonym 54. Irony 79. Epithet 55. Subtext 80. Parenthesis 56. Paradox 81. Subject 57. Tone 82. Object 58. Lexical Field 83. Predicate 59. Theme 84. Article 60. Context 85. Noun 61. Euphemism 86. Adjective 62. Hyperbole 87. Verb 63. Ambivalence 88. Adverb 64. Ambiguity 89. Main clause 65. Oxymoron 90. Subordinate Clause 66. Colloquialism 91. Preposition 67. Direct address 92. Conjunction 68. Verbal irony 93. Interrogative 69. Cliché 94. Declarative 70. Allusion 95. Imperative 71. Tone 96. Homonym 72. Register 97. Ellipsis 73. Satire 98. Conditional 74. Analogy 99. Collective pronouns 75. Rhetorical Question 100. Co-ordinate clause